Restrictive Practice in Community Services for Adults with ID

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Understanding Adults with Intellectual Disabilities’ Experiences of Restrictive Practice in Community Services

  • IRAS ID

    340235

  • Contact name

    Chloe Brown

  • Contact email

    chloe.brown2@liverpool.ac.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    University of Liverpool

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    1 years, 4 months, 29 days

  • Research summary

    Title: Understanding Adults with Intellectual Disabilities’ Experiences of Restrictive Practice in Community Services
    Background: Restrictive practice is when an aspect of someone's care limits their freedom in order to keep them and/or other people safe. For example, someone may be supervised when doing a certain activity (e.g. going to the shops) if this is necessary to keep the person safe.
    Aims:
    - Explore how adults with intellectual disabilities living in the community understand and experience restrictive practice.
    - Explore how adults with intellectual disabilities make sense of their experiences of restrictive practice
    - Explore how adults with intellectual disabilities contribute to decisions around the restrictive practice they experience
    Participants: Up to 15 adults with intellectual disabilities experiencing restrictive practice in community services
    Design: A qualitative design will be used following the guidelines for Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
    Procedure Summary: Participants will engage in one-to-one semi-structured interviews to capture their knowledge, attitudes and experiences of restrictive practice. Interview transcripts will be analysed to identify themes across the dataset.

  • REC name

    East of England - Essex Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    24/EE/0140

  • Date of REC Opinion

    7 Aug 2024

  • REC opinion

    Further Information Favourable Opinion